Sentences with phrase «sacred union of»

The age - old definition of marriage as being the sacred union of one man and one woman is no longer a given.

In Indian culture especially in Hindu, Marriage is considered extremely pious and sacred union of two individual souls who start their journey of life together.

Marriage is a sacred union of two souls as one, and a life - changing decision for the lives of many men and women.

Royce, like James, studied the major religions of East and West and formed a preference for Christianity because it established a sacred union of the one and the many.

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A revised appreciation for «processual marriage» would help couples begin to explore the sacred dimensions of their bond to one another before they solidify their union for life.

Babies and children have a right to be raised in the context of a heterosexual union: their origin was the sacred interplay, and they deserve to be raised in an atmosphere respectful of the same.

Is a form of faith possible that will effect a dialectical union between time and eternity, or the sacred and the profane?

The crucifying impact of sin on the whole human race will inevitably have a devastating impact upon the sacred humanity of Christ precisely because he is - by right, vocation and very ontology - ourfinal and plenary union with God.

When, therefore, we find them also possessing sacraments, fairly magical in their efficacy — especially baptisms, whether of water or of blood, and sacred meals that conferred union with the deity — the query inevitably rises in how far in these regards they influenced Christianity.

Alike in the sacred meals of Judaism and of paganism, another idea had from primitive times been dominant — by eating the sacrificed and dedicated food, union was consummated between the worshiper and his deity.

Noting that we do not live in a sacred world valuing «received knowledge» from holy writ, but in a profane world harshly criticizing that tradition, Victoria Erickson of Union Theological Seminary in New York City wondered if we dared invite our worst critics into our classrooms for dialogue.

In the Kingdom of God, we don't have to choose between lifting up men or lifting up women, it's not one or the other: it's both together, it's the sacred union, the created purpose as co-image bearers of God.

Sexual union is sacred — so much so, that God has bound to it the of co-creation of new human life.

If I may be permitted some italicized revisions, Altizer's comment on Brown would look like this: Postrepressed life would be a coalescence of time and eternity, involving a libido that has been cured of the Oedipus complex, which is to say a libido that has no guilt over having murdered God, a libido that is fallen and still in union with the sacred, i.e., a libido that is in the (realized?)

When the sacred and the profane are understood as dialectical opposites whose mutual negation culminates in a transition or metamorphosis of each into its respective Other, then it must appear that a Christian and eschatological coincidentia oppositorum in this sense is finally a coming together or dialectical union of an original sacred and the radical profane.

This is an insight that is perhaps best expressed again in the words of Cardinal Ratzinger, this time in 2001 writing in America magazine: «The basic idea of sacred history is that of gathering together, of uniting — uniting human beings in the one body of Christ, the union of human beings and through human beings of all creation with God.

For in hope's reaching out to the future, it is also seeking intimate union with sacred mystery, which in the prophetic context happens to have the shape of «future.»

Its wonderful and should be treated as sacred, that is one of the reasons it is a covenant: the union of two to become ONE.

For Hero Trinity, the sacred achievement was a Christian union of normally polarized persons and classes, a coincidence of opposites.

The priests» union with humanity was clearly understood and accepted as fact in the OT This is why they needed so many stages of separation to be raised to the sacred level.

That independence has allowed him to take on so many of New York's sacred cows: the MTA, unions, the entrenched Democratic machine and the state legislature.

It's a first salvo in what's expected to be a protracted budget battle as Gov. Andrew Cuomo gears up to fulfill his pledge to make deep spending cuts — most likely by goring the ox of some heretofore sacred cows, including the public employee unions and education aid.

A sacred relationship is a relationship in which we are inspired to see the divine in another person, to experience oneness through the union of two.

Tenure and seniority are no longer sacred, either, and the unions no longer get much traction with their declaration that it's inherently unfair to gauge teacher performance on the basis of student learning.

In Europe, four to six weeks of paid vacation time for employees is an entitlement that employees and the courts hold sacred and is, according to the Court of Justice of the European Union, a «particularly important principle of EU social law.»

Marriage is a sacred union yet pressures of today's society can distract us from this primary goal of a satisfying relationship.

Union Presbyterian Seminary equips Christian leaders for ministry in the world a sacred vocation that requires deep learning, commitment to service, and an ability to read culture and circumstance in the light of the rich resources of scripture and theological tradition.

Unless we have the right to enter that sacred union, violate it, exit it, and enter it again with somebody else over and over, regardless of what crimes we commit — unless we have that right and gay people don't, then there truly is nothing sacred in the United States of America.